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Slides is a digitized version of the old practices. Better presentation technology will not be found here, as much as I detest Powerpoint, I'm willing to admit
by Aperocky 4y ago
Slides is a digitized version of the old practices.
Better presentation technology will not be found here, as much as I detest Powerpoint, I'm willing to admit that it is the pinnacle of slide presentation.
To reach a better presentation and flowing of information across the society, the answer is to ditch slides altogether. Which I am not envisioning how as I'm not a product manager or a salesman but for myself I'm doing perfectly fine with markdown and other text based means of communicating information.
- bmc7505 4y agoIn classroom settings, slides are a poor local optimum. Personally I feel that professors rely on slides too heavily and would strongly them to use chalk. Writing in real-time forces you to teach at the pace of human thought. This also allows students to take notes and actually absorb the material - otherwise, there is a tendency to pack too much into slides and you end up loosing half your audience. Although sometimes helpful for giving visual intuitions, more often than not, slides just get in the way. When there really is no alternative to slides (e.g., for workshops and conference presentations), I find LaTeX/Beamer much easier to handle. It has good defaults and does not require fiddling with transitions and formatting and superficial but ultimately pointless settings.